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MACHINE FOR MAKING AND APPLYING TUFTS AND THE LIKE Original Filed Sept. 27, 1926 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Reissued Dec. 17, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MACHINE FOR MAKING AND APPLYING TUFTS AND THE LIKE Robert E. Walliser, Libertyville, IIL, assignor, by mesne assignments, to L. G. Blessing 16 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for making and applying tufts and the like, and has for its object the provision of an improved machine of this character by means of which tufts, tassels and other ornamentation may be automatically and rapidly applied to looped headings and the like, the present exemplification of my invention being in the form of attachment or addition'to the machine dis- 10 closed in the patent to C. F. Arnold, No. 1,390,267,

dated September 13, 1921.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a parts of this specification, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a partial top plan view of a machine embodying the invention,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial detail view of a guide tube and its support employed in the machine,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a similar section taken on line 4--4 of Fi 2,

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken substantially on line 55 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 6 is a detail plan view illustrating the feeding attachment in delivery position,

Fig. 7 is a partial side view of the automatic feeding attachment,

Fig. 8 is a section taken substantially on line 8--8 of Fig. '7,

' Fig. 9 is a detail view of a bell crank lever employed in operating the feeding attachment,

Fig. 10 is a partial'detail view of a feed guide tube employed in the feeding attachment,

Fig. 11 is a detail view of a juncture member employed in loading the said guide tube,

Fig. 12 is a detail view ilustrating the positions of the parts whenthe guide tube is being loaded,

Fig. 13 is a detail view illustrating the feeding attachment in initial position,

Fig. 14 is an enlarged view illustrating the feeding attachment in an intermediate position, 50 Fig. 15 is a similar view illustrating the parts at a later stage,

Fig. 16 is a side view corresponding with Fig. 15,

Fig. l? is a view of the work as it comes from themachine, and

Fig. 18 is a view of a completed tuft applied to a looped heading.

The exemplification of the invention illustrated in the drawings is in the form of an attachment to the machine disclosed in the patent to Arnold, No. 1,390,267, dated September 13, 1921, and therefore said machine requires no detailed description here. Suffice it to say that the said Arnold machine in its normal operation serves to make and apply the tufts 18 to the loops 84 on the heading 83, the same reference characters employed in said Arnold patent being repeated in the drawings herein for convenience in understanding the invention. The Arnold machine is a highly satisfactory and useful machine operating to make and apply tufts as specified, but said machine requires the constant attendance of an operator, who, by hand, feeds the loops 84 of the heading 83 onto the prong 66 of the forked die of said machine, said machine thereupon operating automatically to make and apply and secure the tuft to said loop. The present exemplification of my invention is in the form of an attachment to said machine for automatically and successively feeding the loops 84 of the heading B3 to said machine whereby the necessity for the constant attendance of the operator is obviated, the quantity of the output of the machine greatly increased, and a more uniform product produced. To this end I .apply a supporting bracket I 35 to the front portion of the frame of said machine and mount on the underside of said bracket a bell crank lever I36, said bell crank lever being fulcrumed at I31 on said bracket. One arm of said bell crank is provided with a longitudinal slot I38 and a pivot block I39 is pivotally and adjustably mounted in said slot by means of the bolt I40. A connecting rod I has its corresponding end adjustably secured to the block I39 as indicated. The other end of the .connecting rod I is operatively con nected by means of a. ball and socket joint I42 with the end of a lever I43 which is fulcrumed at I44 on a supporting bar I44 secured to the forward side of the frame of said machine. The lever I43 is provided with a longitudinal slot I45 having a sliding connection with .a crank pin I48 on a cam member I41 secured to the shaft 38 of said machine which is extended sufiiciently for the purpose, said connection operating as will be readily understood to cause oscillation of the bell crank I36 as the shaft 38 rotates. It will also be noted that the connection is adjustable so that the extent of said oscillation may be varied as desired.

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The other arm of the bell crank I36 is provided with a longitudinal slot I48 having an adjustable pivotal connection I49 with the end of a link I50. As best shown in Figs. 7, 9 and l the link I50 is pivotally connected with one end of a reciprocating rod I mounted in a suitable guide as shown and having its other endconnected with a bracket I52 as best shown in Figs. 7 and 3. The bracket I52 is slidable against the underside of a guide I53 having a clamping block I54 slidably mounted on top thereof, said bracket I52 being rigidly secured to the clamping block I54 by means of bolts as shown. The clamping block I54 is arranged to receive one end of a reciprocating feed rod I55 best shown in Figs. 3, 2 and 1. The feed rod I55 is perforated to. pass over a lock pin I56 and is held in place thereon by means of a swinging clamping bar I51 detachably held in place by means of a swinging bolt I58 engaging a notch I59 in its free end. By this arrangement it will be noted that the feed rod I55 may be readily detached and removed from said clamping block I54 when desired. The feed rod I55 is arranged to reciprocate in a guide tube I60, said guide tube being rigidly clamped in a clamping block I6I rigidly secured to the upper side of the guide bar I53 as best shown in Figs. 2, 4 and 7. The clamping block I6I is provided with a swinging clamping bar I62 which is held in place by means of a swinging bolt I63 engaging a slot I62 and whereby said tube I60 may be removably clamped in position on said guide bar I53, said tube projecting thence into co-operation with the parts of the machine as shown. As best shown in Figs. 1 and 8 the guide tube I66 rests at its inner end between grooved guide rollers I64, the grooves in said guide rollers loosely fitting said tube so as to permit of the free passage of the guide loops 84 to the machine. At its inner end the guide tube I60 is arranged in co-operative relationship with the forked die 63 and the plunger die 59 of the said Arnold machine, said end of tube being provided with a notch I65 which serves to expose the inner end of the feed rod I55. The inner end of the feed rod I55 is provided with a longitudinal slot I66 adapted and arranged to pass over the forked die 63 as indi+ cated by the dotted lines in Fig. 13. The extreme inner end of the feed rod I55 is also provided with a transverse notch I61 adapted and arranged to engage the loops 84 as best shown in Figs. 15 and 16.

In the normal operation of the machine of the Arnold patent a wire band or binding 62 is severed and bound around the tufts 18 by .the cooperative action of the forked die 63 and the plunger die 59. The parts of the attachment are so arranged and designed that just previous to such binding of said wire a loop 84 is placed over the prong 66 of the forked die 63 so that said wire is caused to pass through said loop in the binding operation, thus not only forming the tuft 18 but also securing said tuft to said loop. The arrangement is such that at each reciprocation of the rod I55, as said rod is drawn back it passes outwardly through one of the loops 84 so that at the next inward movement of said rod said loop is engaged by the notch I61 and carried into the machine, being thereby placed in position so that at the next movement of the forked die 63 the prong 66 of said die will pass through said loop and hold the same in position to be engaged and bound by the binding wire as explained above. When the parts are retracted the prong 66 is automatically withdrawn from said loop and the weight of the material causes the same to fall away from the moving parts of the machine. The arrangement is such that as each loop is thus drawn up to position for engagement by the prong 66 the next succeeding loop is drawn up to position in the notch I65 for engagement by the feed bar I55 so that at each reciprocation of said feed bar a new loop will be presented to the forked dies I66 and whereby said loops will be automatically and successively fed to said die as will be readily understood.

The loops 84 are preferably placed upon the guide tube I60 as follows: The looped heading 83 is formed with the loops 84 thereon in an ordinary narrow fabric or ribbon weaving loom operating in the usual way to weave said heading with the loops 84 threaded on the usual wire of such machine. For convenience in co-operation with the guide tubes I60 of the present machine, this guide wire of said weaving machine is extended around the usual take-up rollers and sufficiently beyond to accommodate the necessary length of heading and such length of heading permitted to accumulate on said wire as it is automatically made and delivered from said weaving loom-as will be-r'eadily understood by those skilled in the art. In order to facilitate removal of such heading from said loom wire onto the guide tube I60 I provide a juncture member I68 having oneend the same size as the said wire I69 of said weaving loom. The other end of said juncture member is of a size to flt snugly within the end of the tube I60, being provided with a slot or bifurcation I to permit of yielding engagement with said tube. The juncture member I68 is provided with a shoulder I1I fitting snugly against the end of said tube, said juncture member being conically formed to thus constitute a smooth continuation of both the wire and the tube. In practice when a sufficient length of looped heading has been accumulated on the wire I69 the sameis readily transferred by hand to one of the guide tubes I60 by fitting a juncture member I68 into the end of the tube and fixing said juncture member in registration with the end of the wire I69, whereupon the operator may readily by hand slide the loops I84 in groups or handfuls onto the tube I60,'of course severing the end of the heading when the tube is loaded. When the tube I60 has thus been loaded with the looped'heading the juncture member I68 is removed and the loaded tube arranged in the machine in the position indicated in Fig. 1, with the feed rod I55 reciprocating therethrough as described above. The feed rod will thus operate to automatically feed the loops 64 of said heading into the machine where each loop will be provided with a tuft by the automatic action of said machine as explained above. In this manner the tufts will be rapidly, automatically and economically applied to the looped heading without the constant attention of an operator to feed each loop into the machine. In this manner such work may be done with great uniformity and economy of labor. By adjusting the parts to give greater movement to the rod I55 a plurality of loops may be fed at each operation and thus the loops bound by the tufts in groups.

While I have illustrated. and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details ofconstruction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended Having described my invention, what .1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent .is:

I claim:

1, The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading. of an outer guide for said loops arranged in operative relation to said machine; and a reciproosting .feed member mounted within said guide and operating 'tozfeed said loops successively to said. machine, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading, of an outer tubular guide for said loops arranged in operative relation to said machine; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide and operating to feed said loops successively to said machine, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading, of a tubular guide member for said loops arranged in operative relation to said machine; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide, the discharge end of said guide being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped headin, of a tubular guide member for said loops arranged in operative relation to said machine; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide, the discharge end of said guide being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops and longitudinally notched to accomodate parts of said machine, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading including a reciprocating forked die and a cooperating reciprocating plunger die, of an outer guide for said loops arranged in operative relation to said dies; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide and operating to feed said loops successively to said forked die, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading, including a reciprocating forked die and a cooperating reciprocating plunger die, of a tubular guide member for said loops arranged in operative relation to said dies; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide, the discharge end of said guide being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops, substantially as described.

7. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading, including a reciprocating forked die and a cooperating reciprocating plunger die, of a tubular guide member for said loops arranged in operative relation to said dies; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide, the discharge end of said guide being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops and longitudinally notched to accommodate said forked die, substantially as described.

ii. The combination with a :machine for applying ornamentation to thezloops of a looped heading, including a reciprocating forked die and .a cooperating reciprocating plunger die, of .a guide tube for said loops; a detachable clamping member adapted and arranged to engage the outer end of said tube, said tube projecting thence into operative relation with said dies; grooved guide rollers loosely supporting the .inner end .of .said tube to permit the free passage of said :loops; and a reciprocating feed member mounted with :insaid guide tubethe discharge .end of saidgguide tube being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops, substantially as described.

9. The combination with a machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of a looped heading, including a reciprocating forked die and a cooperating reciprocating plunger die, of a guide tube for said loops; a detachable clamping member adapted and arranged to engage the outer end of said tube, said tube projecting thence into operative relation with said dies; grooved guide rollers loosely supporting the inner end of said tube to permit the free passage of said loops, and a. reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide tube, the discharge end of said guide tube being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops and longitudinally notched to accommodate said forked die, substantially as described.

10. A feeding attachment comprising an outer guide for the loops of a member; and means operating through the interior of said guide for automatically and successively feeding said loops from said guide, substantially as described.

11. A feeding attachment comprising an outer tubular guide for the loops of a member; and means operating through the interior of said guide for automatically and successively feeding said loops from said guide, substantially as described.

12. A feeding attachment comprising a guide tube for the loops of a member; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide tube, the discharge end of said guide tube being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said end of said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops, substantially as described.

13. A feeding attachment comprising a guide tube for the loops of a member; and a reciprocating feed member mounted within said guide tube, the discharge end of said guide tube being notched to expose partially the end of said feed member and said endof said feed member being transversely notched to engage said loops and longitudinally notched to accommodate parts of a cooperating machine, substantially as described.

14. The combination with a weaving machine wire, of a movable guide tube for receiving loops, and a juncture member having one end substantially the size of said wire and the other end of a size to fit within said tube, there being a shoulder fitting against the end of said tube to form a smooth continuation for transfer of loops from said wire to said tube, the end of said juncture member fitting within said tube being bifurcated and of a size to effect a yielding spring engagement with said tube, substantially as described.

15. A structure adapted to cooperate with a. machine for applying ornamentation to the loops of aloo'ped. heading, including a reciprocating forked die and a cooperating reciprocating of' a looped heading, including a reciprocating forked die and a cooperating reciprocating plunger die, an elongated feed guide having one free end adapted to receive a supply of loops to be fed from the guide, a support member 5 equipped with a clamp for releasably engaging one end portion of said feed guide to support the same in alignment with said dies, means for loosely supporting the other end of said feed guide adjacent said forked die, and means for 10 drawing a loop upon said forked die.

ROBERT E. WALLISER. 

